Chapter 6 BIOS and System Setup
TI6NB Pentium II 440BX ATX Motherboard User’s Manual
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VGA Active Monitor
When enabled, any video activity restarts the global timer for Standby
mode. The default setting is
Enabled
.
Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN
This field defines the power-off mode when using an ATX power supply.
The Instant-Off mode allows powering off immediately upon pressing
the power button. In the Delay 4 Sec mode, the system powers off when
the power button is pressed for more than four seconds or places the
system in a very low-power-usage state, with only enough circuitry
receiving power to detect power button activity or Resume by Ring
activity (see next field) when pressed for less than 4 seconds. The default
value is
Instant-Off
.
Resume by Ring
An input signal on the serial Ring Indicator (RI) line (in other words, an
incoming call on the modem) awakens the system from a soft off state.
Resume by Alarm
This allows a computer to be turned on automatically through the timer
set int he BIOS to make the system more scheduleable. By default, this
field is set to
Disabled
.
IRQ 8 Break Suspend
You can enable or disable the monitoring of IRQ 8 (Real Time Clock) so
it does not awaken the system from Suspend mode.
Reload Global Timer Events
This section determines the reloading of the ‘timers’ after entering the
Full On You can enable or disable the monitoring of IRQ 8 (Real Time
Clock) so it does not awaken the system from Suspend mode.
